Best Claude skills for coding
Coding skills change how your agent works, not only what it writes: brainstorm before building, write a plan, test first, review its own diff, and finish branches cleanly. Packs like Superpowers, Matt Pocock's skills, Addy Osmani's agent skills and Garry Tan's gstack are the most starred skills on GitHub.
484 coding skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Matt Pocock
Diagnosing Bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
321k33MScore 97 - 2#2
Ask Matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
321k33MScore 95 - 3#3
Code Review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code…
321k33MScore 95 - 4#4
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Writing Skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
316k3.9MScore 94 - 5#5
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Brainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a…
316k3.9MScore 92 - 6#6
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Diagnosing Superpowers
Use when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why…
316k3.9MScore 92 - 7#7
JuliusBrussee
Caveman Learn
Act on a Caveman learn report - review the ranked token sinks, apply cost-lowering fixes with per-edit consent, and report what those fixes returned. Use when asked to lower an agent's…
119k4.8MScore 90 - 8#8
affaan-m
Agent Architecture Audit
Full-stack diagnostic for agent and LLM applications. Audits the 12-layer agent stack for wrapper regression, memory pollution, tool discipline failures, hidden repair loops, and rendering…
301k1.7MScore 89 - 9#9
Agent Sort
Build an evidence-backed ECC install plan for a specific repo by sorting skills, commands, rules, hooks, and extras into DAILY vs LIBRARY buckets using parallel repo-aware review passes…
301k1.7MScore 89 - 10#10
Android Clean Architecture
Clean Architecture patterns for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform projects — module structure, dependency rules, UseCases, Repositories, and data layer patterns. Use when structuring…
301k1.7MScore 89
What makes a great coding skill.
A workflow (plan, implement, verify) rather than a list of tips.
Explicit stop conditions so the agent asks instead of guessing.
Skills that compose: planning, testing and review that hand off to each other.
All 484 coding skills.
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchopenrlhf-training
High-performance RLHF framework with Ray+vLLM acceleration. Use for PPO, GRPO, RLOO, DPO training of large models (7B-70B+). Built on Ray, vLLM, ZeRO-3. 2× faster than DeepSpeedChat with…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchrwkv-architecture
RNN+Transformer hybrid with O(n) inference. Linear time, infinite context, no KV cache. Train like GPT (parallel), infer like RNN (sequential). Linux Foundation AI project. Production at…
tw93think
Turns rough ideas into approved, decision-complete plans before coding. Use when planning architecture, judging whether to build, or writing a handoff. Not for bug fixes or small edits.
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchtransformer-lens-interpretability
Provides guidance for mechanistic interpretability research using TransformerLens to inspect and manipulate transformer internals via HookPoints and activation caching. Use when…
tw93ui
Produces distinctive production UI and screenshot-grounded visual polish. Use when building or restyling pages, components, or typography. Not for backend logic or data pipelines.
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanichangelog
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alirezarezvanichaos-experiment
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alirezarezvanicompetitive-matrix
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alirezarezvanicontent-strategist
../../../agents/personas/content-strategist.md
wondelai
Skills
wondelaicreate-app
Guided journey from a raw app idea to a validated, cleanly architected first version that ships on a sustainable cadence. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - lean-startup…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanics-aeo
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alirezarezvanics-agile-product-owner
../../../agents/product/cs-agile-product-owner.md
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alirezarezvanics-backend-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-backend-engineer.md
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alirezarezvanics-backend-review
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alirezarezvanics-ceo-advisor
../../../agents/c-level/cs-ceo-advisor.md
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alirezarezvanics-content-creator
../../../agents/marketing/cs-content-creator.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-cto-advisor
../../../agents/c-level/cs-cto-advisor.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-demand-gen-specialist
../../../agents/marketing/cs-demand-gen-specialist.md
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alirezarezvanics-engineer-grill
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alirezarezvanics-engineering-lead
../../../agents/engineering-team/cs-engineering-lead.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-financial-analyst
../../../agents/finance/cs-financial-analyst.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-frontend-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-frontend-engineer.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-frontend-review
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-fullstack-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-fullstack-engineer.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-fullstack-review
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-growth-strategist
../../../agents/business-growth/cs-growth-strategist.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-karpathy-reviewer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-karpathy-reviewer.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-product-analyst
../../../agents/product/cs-product-analyst.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-product-manager
../../../agents/product/cs-product-manager.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-product-strategist
../../../agents/product/cs-product-strategist.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-project-manager
../../../agents/project-management/cs-project-manager.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-quality-regulatory
../../../agents/ra-qm-team/cs-quality-regulatory.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-senior-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-senior-engineer.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-ux-researcher
../../../agents/product/cs-ux-researcher.md
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-webinar
alirezarezvani
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alirezarezvanics-webinar-marketer
../../../agents/marketing/cs-webinar-marketer.md
Coding skills, explained.
Also searched as: claude code skills, best claude code skills, software engineering skills, superpowers.
What are the best Claude skills for coding?
Right now the top-ranked coding skills on Alyn are Diagnosing Bugs (Matt Pocock), Ask Matt (Matt Pocock), Code Review (Matt Pocock). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
What are the best Claude Code skills?
By stars and installs: Superpowers (obra), Matt Pocock's skills, Addy Osmani's agent-skills, gstack (Garry Tan) and Caveman. Alyn ranks them live.
How many skills should I install?
Start with one workflow pack and two or three task skills. Each skill only costs about 100 tokens until it is used, but overlapping skills can confuse which one runs.
How do I install a coding skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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